Removing old preferences from exported key

[David Shaw]

On Apr 8, 2014, at 1:48 AM, Johan Wevers <johanw at vulcan.xs4all.nl> wrote:

> On 07-04-2014 15:16, David Shaw wrote:
> 
>> When you change preferences you add another selfsig for your
>> user ID that contains the new preferences.
> 
>> If you want to make the old preferences go away completely,
>> you can simply delete the old selfsig via delsig
> 
> Yers, that removes it completely from my keyring. That's not necessary
> and will be undone after the first sync with the keyservers anyway.
> 
> However, is there a way to remove it from the exported key only - to
> keep the size of the exported key as small as possible? The export
> options didn't do that as list-packets showed.

Sure:

  --export-options export-clean

David